
I don’t want to write an artistic resume like a professional. If you like my photos, I believe we can become friends. If you don’t, even better, because I absolutely hate them.
I’ve hesitated for a long time about whether I should keep this personal website, as its domain name comes with a hefty annual fee. Some of my friends might occasionally visit it, and I feel proud for them. They’ve stumbled through confusion and have truly become great photographers, great artists, great directors, and great filmmakers.
As for me, I’ve been lost. I don’t know what photography means to me. Do these images even have any meaning?
I haven’t found a reasonable answer. I even read for a PhD over this stupid question and realised that scholars have no answers either. All they care about is publishing papers, and claiming authority over the explanation of all things beautiful: filling art exhibitions with Baudrillard and Foucault, letting photographers boast about their fieldwork, and letting writers boast about being non-fiction writers.
Of course, anthropologists are very good at self-criticism on this matter, but honestly, they’re just a bunch of fools.
我不想像专业的艺术家那样书写一份艺术简历,如果你喜欢我的照片我相信我们可以做朋友,如果你不喜欢更好,因为我对它们恨之入骨。
我犹豫了很久是否需要保留这个个人主页,因为它的域名每年要价不菲。我的一些朋友可能偶尔会打开它,我为她们而感到骄傲。她们在迷茫中前行并真正的成为了好的摄影师,好的艺术家,好的导演,好的电影制作人。
而我一直在迷茫,这些图像到底有意义吗?
我没能找到合理的答案,我甚至为了这个烂问题去读了博,然后发现那些学者根本没有答案,他们在乎的只是发文章,陷害别人,占据对一切美好事物的解释权:让美术展里面写满了鲍德里亚,福柯,让摄影师吹牛逼说自己在田野调查,让作家吹牛逼说自己搞非虚构写作。
当然,人类学家非常擅长对这一点进行自我批判,真他妈傻逼。